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By Staff Â· Posted March 24, 2015; 11:30 a.m.

Gene Grossman, the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics and a professor of economics and international affairs, has been awarded the 2015 Onassis Prize for International Trade in recognition of his contributions to strategic trade policy, environmental economics and the economics of offshoring. The prize, which comes with a $200,000 award, was announced Friday, March 20, in London.

Six Princeton staff members were recognized for their commitment to excellence and exceptional performance during the University's annual Service Recognition Luncheon on March 16 in Jadwin Gymnasium. In addition, two staff members were honored for their leadership potential.

By Staff Â· Posted March 19, 2015; 03:00 p.m.

Eric Wood, theÂ Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest career honors for engineers.Â He was recognized by the academy "for development of land surface models and use of remote sensing for hydrologic modeling and prediction."Â He is among 67 new members and 12 foreign members elected to the academy this year; election reflects significant contribution to engineering research, practice or education.

By the Office of Development Communications Â· Posted March 4, 2015; 10:00 a.m.

Kevin Heaney, who has worked in fundraising leadership positions for nearly 20 years, has been named deputy vice president for development at Princeton University. His appointment is effective March 9.

By Staff Â· Posted February 20, 2015; 01:45 p.m.

Princeton University was one of 12 institutions nationwide to receive a total of $56 million in funds from the National Science Foundation to support Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs). The award renews the NSF's existing support for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) through October 2020, and includes $6.39 million for at least the first two years.

By Staff Â· Posted February 11, 2015; 12:00 p.m.

Peter Brown, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus and senior historian, and Alessandro Portelli, a lecturer in sociology, have been awarded the 2015 Dan David Prize, which recognizes achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact. Brown, recognized for reshaping our understanding of social and cultural change, and Portelli, honored for challenging the way we understand recording the past, will be awarded the $1 million prize in the category of "Retrieving the Past: Historians and Their Sources" at a ceremony May 17 at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

By Staff Â· Posted January 20, 2015; 01:45 p.m.

Shivaji Sondhi, a Princeton University professor of physics, has received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, which recognizes researchers who have had, and are expected to continue having, a significant impact on their discipline. The award allows Sondhi, whose research focuses largely on quantum condensed matter, to spend up to one year collaborating with researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. The Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards annually, and the award is valued at 60,000 euros.

By Staff Â· Posted January 16, 2015; 01:00 p.m.

David Spergel, Princeton University's Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation and chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, has received one of the top prizes in astronomy for his breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe. The American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics presented Spergel and co-winner Marc Kamionkowski, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, with the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize, which honors oustanding mid-career scientists and carries a cash prize of $10,000. Spergel and Kamionkowski were recognized for their "outstanding contributions to the investigation of the fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background that have led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe."

By Staff Â· Posted January 15, 2015; 01:15 p.m.

David Tank, Princeton University's Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology and co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has received the 2015 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize, which recognizes seminal discoveries that advance scientists' understanding of the brain. Tank was recognized for his "discovery of fundamental mechanisms of neural computation."

By Staff Â· Posted December 22, 2014; 01:00 p.m.

Three Princeton University researchers have been granted a total of 345 million hours of processing time on two powerful supercomputers as part of the 2015 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact of Theory and Experiment (INCITE) awards from the U.S. Department of Energy. The awardees from Princeton are Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics; Choong-Seock Chang, managing principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; and Jeroen Tromp, the Blair Professor of Geology and professor of geosciences and applied and computational mathematics.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted December 18, 2014; 10:00 a.m.

Hilary Parker, senior associate director for administrative planning in the Office of the Executive Vice President at Princeton University, has been named special assistant to the president for strategic initiatives.

By Staff Â· Posted December 17, 2014; 01:00 p.m.

Princeton University's David Spergel, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation and chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2014 by Nature magazine. The listing honors the 10 people each year who made a difference in science. Spergel is recognized in the magazine for his identification of errors in the work of scientists who had reported the detection of gravitational remnants of the universe's early expansion.

By Staff Â· Posted December 16, 2014; 10:00 a.m.

Two Princeton University faculty members have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, which honors academic inventors whose inventions have made a tangible impact on society. Among the 2015 Fellows are Ilhan Aksay, professor of chemical and biological engineering, and Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and director of Princeton's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The new fellows will be inducted Mar. 20, 2015, at the academy's fourth annual conference to be held at the California Institute of Technology.

By Staff Â· Posted December 11, 2014; 03:30 p.m.

Christodoulos Floudas, Princeton University's Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been elected as corresponding member of the Academy of Athens in Greece. The Academy of Athens was founded in 1926 and has as main goals "the cultivation and advancement of the sciences, humanities and fine arts, the conduct of scientific research and study, and the offer of learned advices to the state in these areas."

By Staff Â· Posted December 4, 2014; 02:00 p.m.

David MacMillan, Princeton University's James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Department of Chemistry, has received the 2015 Ernst Schering Prize, one of Germany's most prestigious science awards.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted December 3, 2014; 02:01 p.m.

Devin Fore, an associate professor of German, has been awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association for his book "Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature."

By Staff Â· Posted November 17, 2014; 04:30 p.m.

Three Princeton University researchers, two current and one past, were recognized as among Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 for their novel approach to verifying the existence of nuclear warheads: Alexander Glaser, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and international affairs, Robert Goldston, a professor of astrophysical sciences in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Boaz Barak, an assistant professor of computer science now a senior researcher at Microsoft Research New England.

By Staff Â· Posted November 11, 2014; 03:30 p.m.

Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of economics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was awarded a 2014 New York Academy of Medicine Medal for distinguished contributions by individuals in health policy, public health, clinical practice and biomedical research. Reinhardt was recognized for his important contributions to the public's understanding of health care financing and the implications of policy decisions about health care reform, which have both shaped these reforms and contributed to the health of the public.Â Reinhardt received his award on Thursday, Nov. 6, in New York City.
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By Staff Â· Posted November 6, 2014; 03:40 p.m.

The work of three Princeton University researchers has been been selected to appear in the collection, "The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2014," from Princeton University Press. The book will feature previously published work by John Conway, the John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Emeritus, and professor emeritus of mathematics; Mark Braverman, an asssistant professor of computer science; and Michael Barany, a doctoral student in the Program in History of Science.

By Staff Â· Posted November 5, 2014; 03:00 p.m.

Syukuro Manabe, a senior meteorologist in Princeton University's Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, received the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science from Philadelphia's Franklin Institute for his work developing accurate climate models.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted October 30, 2014; 09:51 a.m.

Eddie Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and chair of the Center for African American Studies, has been elected as vice president of the American Academy of Religion.

By Staff Â· Posted October 27, 2014; 09:00 a.m.

Sankaran Sundaresan, a Princeton University professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been chosen to receive a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in recognition of lifetime achievements in research.Â The award is presented to up to 100 non-German scientists each year who are nominated by their peers in Germany. Sundaresan, whose work involves transport phenomena and process engineering, is invited to spend up to a year cooperating on a long-term research research project with colleagues at an institution in Germany.

By Staff Â· Posted October 17, 2014; 11:15 a.m.

Princeton University faculty member Sabine Petry, an assistant professor of molecular biology, was one of 18 early-career researchers nationwide to receive a 2014 Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

By Staff Â· Posted October 8, 2014; 12:30 p.m.

Four Princeton University physicists were among 19 scientists nationwide to receive five-year, $1.8 million awards from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation intended to support "ambitious, high-risk research" in quantum materials: M. Zahid Hasan, a professor of physics; Nai Phuan Ong, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and director of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials; Jason Petta, an associate professor of physics; and Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics.

By Staff Â· Posted October 6, 2014; 01:00 p.m.

Three Princeton University researchers have received 2014 Director's New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health: Timothy Buschman, an assistant professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI); Michael McAlpine, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Mala Murthy, an assistant professor of molecular biology and PNI. The awards support innovative work by early-career scientists.

By Staff Â· Posted October 2, 2014; 03:00 p.m.

Amit Singer, a Princeton University professor of mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, was one of 14 researchers nationwide selected for a five-year, $1.5 million Investigators in Data-Driven Discovery award from the California-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

By Staff Â· Posted October 1, 2014; 02:00 p.m.

Recent Princeton University postdoctoral researchers Jeremy Palmer, of chemical and biological engineering, and Knut Drescher, of molecular biology, received 2014 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists, which recognize outstanding postdoctoral scientists in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

By Staff Â· Posted September 30, 2014; 10:15 a.m.

Two Princeton University projects are among the first group of studies selected by the National Institutes of Health to receive an overall $46 million in funds related to the federal BRAIN Initiative, which aims to map the activity of all the brain's neurons.

By Staff Â· Posted September 22, 2014; 09:46 a.m.

Princeton University researchers Robert Cava, Loren Pfeiffer and Mansour Shayegan are among 12 scientists nationwide to be named Moore Materials Synthesis Investigators by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California. The program is part of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) initiative, which has awarded a total of $20.6 million over five years to enable investigators to "dedicate substantial effort to discovery-driven research, such as investigative synthesis of new types of quantum materials."Â Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, Pfeiffer, a senior research scholar in electrical engineering, and Shayegan, a professor of electrical engineering, will receive $1.9 million each over the next five years.Â

By Staff Â· Posted September 12, 2014; 10:28 a.m.

Robert Keohane, a professor of international affairs and acting faculty chair of the Master in Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, received the 2014 James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The award, given once every three years, "recognizes an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science."

By Staff Â· Posted September 9, 2014; 12:30 p.m.

Danelle Devenport, a Princeton University assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, is one of four researchers nationwide to receive a 2014 Young Investigator Award from theÂ Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation in Boston. The $250,000 award recognizes original and innovative biomedical research. Devenport, who studies how cells coordinate collective behaviors over extremely long distances, combines time-lapse imaging with biophysical approaches to understand the signals skin cells use to direct tissue organization and growth.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted August 18, 2014; 11:00 a.m.

Princeton faculty members William Bialek and Mala Murthy have been awarded Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable new technologies to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from the activity of brain circuits. Each award is for $300,000 over a two-year period and is part of NSF's investment in support of President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative. Bialek, the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, received the award as primary investigator in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Murthy, an assistant professor of molecular biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, received the award as primary investigator in the Directorate for Biological Sciences, along with co-principal investigators Bialek and Joshua Shaevitz, an associate professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Intitute for Integrative Genomics. Thirty-six awards totaling $10.8 million were given. Most of the awarded projects involve interdisciplinary teams of investigators in support of a total of 76 researchers. Â

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted August 4, 2014; 01:15 p.m.

Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and a professor of politics, has been selected to receive the 2014 Ahmadiyya Muslim Humanitarian Award for his "tireless commitment to religious freedom." George, who is also vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will be honored at the group's convention Aug. 16 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

By Staff Â· Posted August 1, 2014; 09:11 a.m.

The 2014 PEN Award for poetry in translation for "Diaries of Exile" by Yannis Ritsos (Archipelago) has been awarded to Karen Emmerich, a 2000 Princeton alumna who majored in comparative literature, earned certificates in Hellenic Studies and creative writing, was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Program in Hellenic Studies in 2010-11 and will join Princeton University as an assistant professor in comparative literature in February 2015, and Edmund Keeley, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus, and professor of English and creative writing, emeritus. The award, which is accompanied by a $3,000 prize conferred in New York, recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published during the current calendar year.

By Staff Â· Posted July 21, 2014; 03:35 p.m.

Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has received the EMD Millipore Alice C. Evans Award for her contributions to the advancement of women in microbiology. The honor is given by the American Society for Microbiology.

By Staff Â· Posted July 18, 2014; 01:13 p.m.

Simon Levin, Princeton University's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was elected a foreign member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (Lombard Institute Academy of Science and Letters) in Italy. Levin will be presented with a certificate of appointment at an Oct. 2 ceremony in Milan.

By Staff Â· Posted July 9, 2014; 03:55 p.m.

Emily Carter, founding director of Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, has been awarded the 2014 Remsen Award by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section for outstanding achievement in chemistry. Carter is Princeton's Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics. The Remsen Award recognizes her work in pioneering the development of unique tools to study and design materials, most recently for sustainable energy from solar and fuel cells to fusion. The award was established in 1946 to commemorate the career of Ira Remsen, first professor of chemistry and second president of Johns Hopkins University.

By Staff Â· Posted July 8, 2014; 03:09 p.m.

Igor Klebanov, Princeton University's Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, was awarded the 2014 Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize for outstanding achievements in physics. He received the prize during a June 19 ceremony at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.

By Staff Â· Posted June 24, 2014; 10:00 a.m.

Princeton University faculty members Sabine Petry, an assistant professor of molecular biology, and Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, an assistant professor of chemistry, have been selected as 2014 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

By Staff Â· Posted June 10, 2014; 11:55 a.m.

Alexei Korennykh, a Princeton University assistant professor of molecular biology, was selected for a 2014 Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The award provides $500,000 over five years.
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By Staff Â· Posted May 21, 2014; 03:00 p.m.

Stephen Chou, Princeton University's Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, has received the 2014 Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology from the IEEE, the top professional society in electrical engineering. Chou will receive the award in August at the IEEE NANO 2014 conference in Toronto.

By Staff Â· Posted May 20, 2014; 11:00 a.m.

Two Princeton University faculty members and a University alumnus were among 33 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation's oldest scholarly organization. Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and a professor of economics and international affairs, was inducted into the APS' social sciences class. Susan Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and a professor of public affairs, was also inducted into the social sciences class. Robert Haselkorn, a professor at the University of Chicago and a member of Princeton's Class of 1956, was elected to the biological sciences class. Candidates for APS membership are nominated by existing members and elected for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.

By Staff Â· Posted May 16, 2014; 03:18 p.m.

Ilana Witten, an assistant professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, received one of six 2014 McKnight Scholar Awards, which are granted to young scientists with a demonstrated commitment to neuroscience. Witten will receive $225,000 over three years for her project, "Deconstructing Working Memory: Dopamine Neurons and Their Target Circuits." The award is supported by the McKnight Foundation's Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, which supports research designed to one day accurately diagnose, prevent and treat brain diseases.

By Staff Â· Posted May 7, 2014; 11:13 a.m.

Hal Foster, the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology, and co-director of the Program in Media and Modernity, has been named a 2014-15 Fellow by the New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

By Staff Â· Posted May 6, 2014; 10:28 a.m.

The Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, has elected H. Vincent Poor, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, as a member. The society recognized Poor "for his fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical signal processing and wireless communications." Poor, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering, was among 10 foreign members named to the society, which annually elects fellows and foreign members from several hundred candidates renowned for contributions to science, engineering and medicine. The fellowship, created in 1660, has included Newton, Darwin and Einstein as members.

By Staff Â· Posted April 30, 2014; 12:36 p.m.

Beatriz Colomina, professor of architecture and co-director of the Program in Media and Modernity; Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History; and Adam Ross, the Hodder Fellow in the Program in Creative Writing, are among the 25 recipients of the Berlin Prize Fellowship for the fall 2014 and spring 2015 terms.

By Staff Â· Posted April 25, 2014; 11:19 a.m.

Sabine Petry and Alexei Korennykh, both Princeton University assistant professors of molecular biology, have received 2014 Kimmel Scholar Awards from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research. Petry and Korennykh are among only 15 research scientists and medical doctors across the United States selected to receive the two-year, $200,000 grants. The awards are intended to support young scientists involved in promising and innovative cancer research.

By Staff Â· Posted April 21, 2014; 01:24 p.m.

Andy Akiho, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Music's Program in Composition and a composer/performer whose interests run from steel pan to percussion to traditional classical music, has been awarded the Luciano Berio Rome Prize.

By Staff Â· Posted April 16, 2014; 10:15 a.m.

Shirley M. Tilghman, president emerita of Princeton University and a professor of molecular biology, has been elected an honorary member of IEEE for her "leadership in bridging quantitative biology and engineering and for advancing higher education." Tilghman will be recognized at the 2014 IEEE Honors Ceremony in Amsterdam on Aug. 23.

By Staff Â· Posted April 11, 2014; 09:00 a.m.

Seven Princeton faculty members have received 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships:Â Mung Chiang, the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, for "Information Engineering for Effective Learning at Massive Scale";Â Andrew Cole, associate professor of English, for "The Renaissance of Late Medieval England";Â Devin Fore, associate professor of German, for "All the Graphs: Soviet Factography and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Documentary"; Meghan O'Rourke, lecturer in creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for "What's Wrong with Me: The Uncertainties of Chronic Illness";Â Serguei Oushakine, associate professor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures, for "Disowned History: Soviet Pasts in the Afterlives of Empire";Â Emily Thompson, professor of history, for "Sound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925-1933"; andÂ Claire Watkins, visiting assistant professor of creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for fiction.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted April 9, 2014; 04:35 p.m.

Three members of the Princeton faculty have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, which funds humanistic research. They are Devin Fore, associate professor of German; Robert Kaster, professor of classics; and Judith Weisenfeld, professor of religion.

By Staff Â· Posted April 7, 2014; 02:30 p.m.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has awarded Princeton University's David Botstein, the Anthony B. Evnin '62 Professor of Genomics, the AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lectureship in recognition of his accomplishments in and influence on cancer research. Botstein also was recently elected to the 2014 class of AACR Academy fellows, which is open only to scientists whose work has had a major impact on the field of cancer research.

By Staff Â· Posted April 4, 2014; 02:41 p.m.

Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, an assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2014 Searle Scholar for his innovative research and potential for making significant contributions to chemical and biological research. Seyedsayamdost and 14 others from universities and research institutes in the United States were selected scholars, each of whom will receive $300,000 to support research programs over the next three years.

Five Princeton University staff members were recognized for their commitment to excellence and exceptional performance during the University's annual Service Recognition Luncheon on March 27 in Jadwin Gymnasium. In addition, two staff members were honored for their leadership potential.

Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for bridging ecological research and environmental policy, economics and social science.

By Staff Â· Posted March 21, 2014; 11:30 a.m.

Laura Landweber, a Princeton University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is a co-recipient of one of only 24 Program Grants awarded worldwide by the Human Frontier Science Program, an international organization that supports new research in complex biological systems.

By Office of Communications Â· Posted March 17, 2014; 02:00 p.m.

Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and chair of the Fund for Irish Studies, has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London in recognition of his outstanding contribution to poetry. He was nominated by The Honourable Irish Society, which commissioned Muldoon to write a cantata to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the society in 2013. Muldoon will receive the award, which is believed to have begun in 1237, at Guildhall, London, on March 17.

Michael Cook, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded the Holberg Prize, a major international honor established by the Norwegian parliament to recognize outstanding scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law or theology.

By Staff Â· Posted February 25, 2014; 04:30 p.m.

Robert Austin, a Princeton University professor of physics, was awarded the 2014 Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics from the American Physical Society (APS) in recognition of work that has "uncovered both new physics and revolutionized the laboratory practice of biology."

By Staff Â· Posted February 24, 2014; 02:51 p.m.

Bogdan Bernevig, the Eugene and Mary Wigner Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics and an assistant professor of physics, was named one of three laureates of the 2014 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics.

By Staff Â· Posted February 7, 2014; 03:00 p.m.

Princeton University professors Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering and professor of computer science, and Robert Schapire, the David M. Siegel '83 Professor in Computer Science, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

By Staff Â· Posted January 28, 2014; 12:08 p.m.

Lyman Page, the Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics and department chair, was recently named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Page was among 248 new fellows elected for exceptional contributions to physics.

By Staff Â· Posted January 17, 2014; 12:00 p.m.

Garnet Chan, Princeton University's A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry, received the 2013 William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences. The award recognizes Chan's pioneering research in the field of numerical simulation of highly correlated quantum systems in chemistry and physics.

By Staff Â· Posted January 9, 2014; 04:00 p.m.

Four Princeton University-affiliated research projects have been awarded grants through the U.S. Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program, for projects that promise to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation in critical areas. The grants give the researchers time on two of America's fastest supercomputers dedicated to open science. The researchers are: Emily Carter, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics; Choong-Seock Chang, principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); William Tang, head of the fusion simulation program at PPPL and a lecturer with the rank of professor in astrophysical sciences;Â and Jeroen Tromp, Blair Professor of Geology and professor of geosciences and applied and computational mathematics.

By Staff Â· Posted December 19, 2013; 04:00 p.m.

Seven Princeton University researchers were named 2013 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), one of the world's top organizations of physicists. Fellows will be honored during the 2014 APS annual meeting.

By Staff Â· Posted December 16, 2013; 10:08 a.m.

Zia Mian, a research scientist in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program on Science and Global Security and a lecturer in public and international affairs, has been selected to receive the 2014 Linus Pauling Legacy Award. The award, sponsored by the Oregon State University Libraries and Press, recognizes Mian's accomplishments as a scientist and as a peace activist in contributing to the global effort for nuclear disarmament and for a more peaceful world. As part of the celebration marking Mian's acceptance of the award, he will deliver a public lecture at the Oregon History Society in Portland, Ore., on Monday, April 21, 2014.

By Staff Â· Posted December 10, 2013; 12:44 p.m.

Elizabeth Davis, an assistant professor of anthropology, has been awarded the fifth annual Gregory Bateson Prize by the Society for Cultural Anthropology for her book "Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece." TheÂ Bateson Prize is awarded annually at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

By Staff Â· Posted December 6, 2013; 09:15 a.m.

"After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead" by Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. The book describes a "perfect storm" that led to the 2008 financial meltdown.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted November 22, 2013; 12:31 p.m.

Claire Vaye Watkins, visiting assistant professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut short story collection "Battleborn." The award celebrates the legacy of Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas and is open to any published author in the English language under the age of 30. The Â£30,000 prize (approximately $46,900) was presented in Thomas' hometown of Swansea, Wales, on Nov. 7.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted November 19, 2013; 10:52 a.m.

Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor in English, professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theater Research (ASTR). ASTR is a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theater and performance, both historical and contemporary. The award committee commended Dolan as "someone who has been a visible presence in every aspect of our profession for over 30 years." The award was presented at the ASTR conference in Dallas on Nov. 9.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted November 4, 2013; 12:28 p.m.

Robert Vanderbei, a professor of operations research and financial engineering, has been named a 2014 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in recognition of his contributions to linear programming and nonlinear optimization problems. The AMS recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of mathematics.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted November 1, 2013; 02:00 p.m.

William Bialek, the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has received the Society for Neuroscience's Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. The $25,000 prize recognizes an individual who has produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in neuroscience. Bialek will be presented the award Nov. 11 during the society's conference in San Diego.

By Staff Â· Posted October 31, 2013; 02:00 p.m.

Michael Yartsev, the CV Starr Fellow and an associate research scholar in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has won the 2013 Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology for his essay, "Space Bats: Multidimensional Spatial Representation in the Bat." The $25,000 prize honors outstanding contributions to neurobiology research. Yartsev used an unusual animal model, the bat, to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain. His approach allowed for both a comparative examination of current hypotheses as well as insight into long-standing questions in the field. His work also underscores the potential benefits of using new animal models in neuroscience. Yartsev will receive the prize at the 2013 Society of Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.

By Staff Â· Posted October 21, 2013; 12:22 p.m.

Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and director of the Woodrow Wilson School's Center for Health and Wellbeing, was among 70 new members and 10 foreign associates recently elected to National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. The election, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, was announced Oct. 21 at the National Academy of Sciences' 43rd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. New members include individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted October 18, 2013; 11:00 a.m.

Adele Goldberg, a professor of linguistics in the Council of the Humanities, has been named a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in recognition of her distinguished contributions to the field of linguistics. Goldberg, along with seven other eminent linguistics scholars selected for the Class of 2014, will be inducted at the LSA annual meeting in Minneapolis in January.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted October 16, 2013; 11:17 a.m.

Claudia Johnson, the Murray Professor of English Literature, has been selected to receive the 2013 Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society for her book "Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures" (2012, University of Chicago Press). The award, given for a distinguished work of literary scholarship and criticism, is accompanied by a $10,000 prize, and will be presented Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C. The award was established in 1950 in honor of Christian Gauss, a former dean of the college and professor of Romance languages and literature at Princeton, who retired in 1946 after a 41-year career at the University. His papers are housed at Firestone Library.

By Staff Â· Posted October 1, 2013; 04:30 p.m.

Dorothea Fiedler, a Princeton University assistant professor of chemistry, received a 2013 New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue her work in cancer metastasis. Fiedler's project, "Understanding phosphate metabolism in cancer and metastasis," was one of 78 "highly innovative" biomedical projects nationwide funded in 2013 as part of the NIH's High Risk-High Reward program.

By Staff Â· Posted September 11, 2013; 10:10 a.m.

Hyun Song Shin, Princeton's Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics, has been named economic adviser and head of research at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In his role, Shin will be a member of the executive committee of the BIS, which serves as a bank for central banks and works to foster international cooperation in the pursuit of monetary and fiscal stability. Shin, who will take a leave from Princeton, begins work at the BIS on May 1, 2014.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted September 9, 2013; 03:53 p.m.

Christodoulos Floudas, the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named one of nine faculty fellows of the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study for the 2013-14 academic year. Texas A&M created the institute in 2012 with the mission of bringing renowned scholars to the university's College Station campus for extended visits to interact with faculty and students. Floudas, a professor of chemical and biological engineering, will spend a portion of his spring 2014 sabbatical leave at the Texas institute. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Floudas specializes in rigorous mathematical optimization techniques and their application to a wide range of problems, from the analysis and design of biological molecules to the optimum planning of the nation's energy infrastructure.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted August 27, 2013; 11:53 a.m.

Lucia Allais, an assistant professor of architecture, and Pamela Lins, a lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, are among the 50 artists and scholars named as fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2013-14 academic year.

By Staff Â· Posted August 14, 2013; 05:00 p.m.

P. James Peebles, Princeton University's Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus, and professor of physics, emeritus, was among three researchers to share the 2013 Dirac Medal presented by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

By Staff Â· Posted July 31, 2013; 12:00 p.m.

Solomon Hsiang, a recent postdoctoral research associate in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, received the Science for Solutions Award from the American Geophysical Union, the largest Earth-science professional society. The $1,000-award recognizes a student or postdoctoral researcher who has made significant contributions in using Earth and space sciences to solve societal problems. Hsiang, who is now an assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, has studied the role of climate on conflict, economies and other aspects of society.

By Office of Communications Â· Posted July 23, 2013; 04:38 p.m.

Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and a professor of politics, was elected Tuesday as chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. George was appointed to the commission in 2012 by Speaker of the House John Boehner. The commission is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that is dedicated to defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.

By Office of Communications Â· Posted July 23, 2013; 11:48 a.m.

Philip Pettit, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, and Patricia Crone, a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor in Near Eastern Studies, have been named corresponding fellows of the British Academy.The British Academy is an independent fellowship of leading academics that supports excellence in the humanities and social sciences. Corresponding fellows are elected in recognition of their international distinction as scholars.

By Staff Â· Posted June 27, 2013; 10:58 a.m.

Princeton professor Robert Wuthnow was among 34 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest scholarly organization. Wuthnow, the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences and a professor of sociology, was inducted into the society's social sciences class. Lewis Lockwood, who earned his Ph.D. in music from Princeton in 1960, was inducted into the humanities class. Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University. Candidates for APS membership are nominated by existing members and elected for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.

By Staff Â· Posted June 24, 2013; 03:42 p.m.

Two Princeton University professors were among five faculty to receive a 2013 Regional Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, which recognizes outstanding work in mathematics, engineering and the life and physical sciences by researchers under the age of 42 working in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. David Blei, an associate professor of computer science, and Frans Pretorius, a professor of physics, were recognized for their work in computer science and astrophysics, respectively. In addition, postdoctoral research Mariangela Lisanti, in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, was named a postdoctoral finalist for her work in nuclear and particle physics. The award is supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and presented by the New York Academy of Sciences.

By Staff Â· Posted June 20, 2013; 02:18 p.m.

David Botstein, Princeton University's Anthony B. Evnin '62 Professor of Genomics and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, is a recipient of the 2013 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in recognition for his work that helped establish a framework for the Human Genome Project. Botstein shares the $250,000 prize with Stanford University School of Medicine faculty members Ronald Davis and David Hogness. In 1980, Botstein and Davis published a conceptual breakthrough that gave researchers the tools to trace and map out the genetic inheritance of disease in humans. Hogness' work provided the means of identifying the precise physical location of genes of interest on chromosomes. The recipients will be honored at a symposium on Thursday, Oct. 3, at Harvard Medical School.

By Staff Â· Posted June 19, 2013; 12:30 p.m.

Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton University's Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Emeritus, is among 13 people to be honored at the White House June 20 as a Champion of Change, which recognizes those who use open scientific data to promote scientific and social progress. Ostriker will be recognized for his research and influence in theoretical astronomy, particularly the aspects of interstellar medium, galaxies, quasars and cosmology that can be approached best by large-scale numerical calculations. Ostriker was among the first to show the prevalence of dark matter in the universe and to explain its role in the universe's expansion. He also helped initiate the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which openly provided an enormous and diverse amount of astronomical data to the scientific community. The honoring ceremony can be viewed live on the White House website at 1 p.m. June 20.

By Staff Â· Posted June 18, 2013; 04:30 p.m.

Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University's Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, was among 52 life-sciences researchers elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Bassler and nine other researchers from outside Europe were named associate members of EMBO, which works to encourage promising researchers and foster a supportive, cooperative research environment in Europe.Â EMBO members provide suggestions and feedback on the organization's activities and help mentor young scientists.

By Staff Â· Posted June 7, 2013; 02:50 p.m.

A.M. Homes, a lecturer in creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been awarded the Women's Fiction Prize for her novel "May We Be Forgiven." The prize, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, is given annually to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman. The award, which is accompanied by a Â£30,000 prize [around $46,600], was presented to Homes in London on June 5.

Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's Hooding ceremony Monday, June 3, on Cannon Green.

By Staff Â· Posted May 3, 2013; 04:59 p.m.

Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman has been elected by the American Society for Cell Biology to serve as the society's president in 2015. A member of the society since 1991, Tilghman received the Women in Cell Biology Senior Award in 2000. She will take office as president for a term of one year in January 2015.

By Staff Â· Posted May 1, 2013; 11:38 a.m.

Three Princeton University faculty members are among the 84 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. They are Manjul Bhargava, the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics; Susan Fiske, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, and professor of psychology and public affairs; and Juan Maldacena, a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor in physics.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted April 25, 2013; 12:44 p.m.

Eight Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 198 leaders in scholarship, business, science, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition of their contributions to their specific fields.

By Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research Â· Posted April 24, 2013; 11:30 a.m.

Two Princeton University research projects — a new tool for visualizing drug therapy in the brain and a method for aiding the search for planets outside our solar system — have been selected to receive grants from Princeton's Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.

By Staff Â· Posted April 18, 2013; 01:16 p.m.

Three Princeton faculty members have received 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships: D. Graham Burnett, professor of history, for his project "Minding the Eye"; Deana Lawson, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for a project photographing people in their everyday environments; and Colson Whitehead, lecturer in creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for fiction.

By Staff Â· Posted April 15, 2013; 03:15 p.m.

Erik Vanmarcke, a Princeton University professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a 2013 Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), an honor that puts him among the most prominent civil engineering professionals and educators in American history.

By Staff Â· Posted April 8, 2013; 04:15 p.m.

Danelle Devenport, an assistant professor of molecular biology, has been named a 2013 Searle Scholar for her innovative research and her potential for making significant contributions to the biomedical sciences. Devenport and 14 others from universities and research institutes in the United States were selected for their exceptional promise in the fields of chemistry and biomedical sciences. Each Searle scholar will receive $300,000 to support research programs over the next three years.

By Staff Â· Posted March 22, 2013; 11:30 a.m.

Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University's Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, was honored with the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize for his lasting work in field and string theory. The $3 million prize was presented during a March 20 ceremony in Geneva by the Fundamental Physics Foundation.

By Staff Â· Posted March 19, 2013; 12:50 p.m.

John Darley, the Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology and a professor of psychology and public affairs, has been chosen to receive the William James Lifetime Achievement Award for Basic Research, presented by the Association for Psychological Science in honor of its 25th anniversary. Darley is among 25 distinguished scientists being honored with lifetime achievement awards this year. The award is the association's highest honor, recognizing a lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology.

By Staff Â· Posted March 5, 2013; 12:58 p.m.

Alison Gammie, senior lecturer in Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology, received the 2013 William A. Hinton Research Training Award from the American Society for Microbiology for her ongoing work to engage underrepresented minority students in microbiology and basic research.

By Staff Â· Posted March 1, 2013; 10:49 a.m.

Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, has been selected to receive the 2013 Thomas C. Schelling Award from Harvard University. The award is bestowed annually to an individual "whose remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy." The award, which is accompanied by a $25,000 prize, will be presented May 2.

By Staff Â· Posted February 25, 2013; 02:42 p.m.

JoÃ£o Biehl, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology, has been selected to receive the 2013 J.I. Staley Prize for his book "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment." The prize is given annually by the School for Advanced Research for a book that represents the best writing and scholarship in anthropology. The Staley Prize panel called the work "a landmark of anthropological writing, humanizing in the most literal sense." Biehl, who also co-directs the Program in Global Health and Health Policy, will receive the prize, which is accompanied by a $10,000 award, on Nov. 21 at the meetings of American Anthropological Association in Chicago.

By Staff Â· Posted February 20, 2013; 02:50 p.m.

David Botstein, Princeton University's Anthony B. Evnin '62 Professor of Genomics and molecular biology and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, was among 11 recipients of the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

By Staff Â· Posted February 15, 2013; 11:08 a.m.

Princeton University assistant professor of geosciences Blair Schoene received the 2013 F.W. Clarke Award from the Geochemical Society. Presented since 1972, the award recognizes early-career scientists who make an outstanding contribution to geochemistry through research on a single topic.

By Staff Â· Posted February 12, 2013; 05:30 p.m.

Edward Felten, a Princeton University professor of computer science and public affairs, was among 69 researchers nationwide elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Felten, who also directs the University's Center of Information Technology Policy and its Program in Information Technology and Society, was recognized for his contributions to computer-system security, and for his impact on public policy.

By Staff Â· Posted January 7, 2013; 01:00 p.m.

Princeton University professors Asif Ghazanfar and Edward Taylor were among 18 researchers nationwide recognized by the National Academy of Sciences in 2013 for their achievement in the physical, biological and social sciences.

Guy Nordenson, a professor of architecture at Princeton and partner of Guy Nordenson and Associates, has been named by Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo to the NYS 2100 Commission, which is tasked with finding ways to improve the resilience and strength of the state's infrastructure in the face of natural disasters and other emergencies. Nordenson, who has been active in earthquake engineering, was the structural engineer for many buildings, including the Museum of Modern Art expansion and the New Museum in New York, the Jubilee Church in Rome, and the Santa Fe Opera House. The commission is one of three announced by Gov. Cuomo to improve New York's emergency response, preparedness and infrastructure to withstand natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy.

Princeton University senior Flannery Cunningham has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to spend a year studying music composition at University College Cork in Ireland. The Mitchell Scholarships were awarded to 12 students nationwide by the Washington D.C.-based U.S.-Ireland Alliance.

By Staff Â· Posted November 6, 2012; 04:30 p.m.

Manuel LlinÃ¡s, a Princeton University associate professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, received a Grand Challenges Explorations Round 9 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to seek more effective malaria drugs.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted October 17, 2012; 01:00 p.m.

GÃ¡spÃ¡r Bakos, a Princeton University assistant professor of astrophysical sciences, was one of 16 researchers nationwide to receive a 2012 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

By the Office of Communications Â· Posted October 16, 2012; 01:09 p.m.

John Hopfield, Princeton University's Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of molecular biology Emeritus, received the Society for Neuroscience's Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience for his contributions to the field of computational neuroscience.

Eleven Princeton professors — among hundreds of contributors from all over the world — wrote entries for Princeton University Press' new edition of "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" — only the fourth revision in more than four decades. "The new edition is considered a singular event in the humanities. it represents a statement of where the fields of poetry and literature are in the 21st century," said Peter Dougherty, director of Princeton University Press.
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By Staff Â· Posted July 31, 2012; 04:15 p.m.

Sun-Yung Alice Chang, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics and chair of Princeton's Department of Mathematics, was among 20 researchers elected to the Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan, during the organization's biennial convocation in July.

By John Sullivan Â· Posted July 23, 2012; 03:37 p.m.

David Blei and Michael Freedman, two Princeton University computer scientists, have received the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.Â

By Staff Â· Posted June 20, 2012; 11:15 a.m.

Several Princeton University researchers are among those honored with the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite project, which has become the basis for understanding the origin, age and content of the universe. Four of the 26 team members sharing the Gruber prize are currently at Princeton, while an additional 14 WMAP researchers worked on the project as graduate or postdoctoral students at the University.

By Staff Â· Posted June 11, 2012; 04:32 p.m.

Peter Singer, the Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, has been awarded Australia's highest civic honor. He was appointed Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia "for eminent service to philosophy and bioethics as a leader of public debate and communicator of ideas in the areas of global poverty, animal welfare and the human condition."

By Staff Â· Posted May 21, 2012; 02:00 p.m.

Bogdan Bernevig, the Eugene and Mary Wigner Assistant Professor in Theoretical Physics in Princeton's Department of Physics, is among 11 researchers nationwide to receive a 2012 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences.

By Michael Hotchkiss Â· Posted May 14, 2012; 03:10 p.m.

Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony Monday, June 4, on Cannon Green.

By Staff Â· Posted May 7, 2012; 10:30 a.m.

Four Princeton University faculty members are among the 84 new members recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences for noted and ongoing achievement in original research: William Bialek; Pablo Debenedetti; John Groves; and Nai Phuan Ong.

By Jamie Saxon Â· Posted April 27, 2012; 04:59 p.m.

Toni Morrison, the renowned author and the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Princeton University, was named by President Barack Obama a 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

By Staff Â· Posted April 27, 2012; 10:30 a.m.

Princeton University faculty members Bonnie Bassler, Brent Shaw and Christopher Sims were among 35 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation's oldest scholarly organization.

By Morgan Kelly Â· Posted April 23, 2012; 09:00 a.m.

Princeton University professors David MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and chair of the department, and Bonnie Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, were among the noted scientists elected as fellows of the Royal Society in 2012.

By Staff Â· Posted April 17, 2012; 05:07 p.m.

Eight Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 220 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition of their contributions to their respective fields.

By Staff Â· Posted March 29, 2012; 04:08 p.m.

Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University's Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science, has been awarded the 2011 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award for work that brings new understanding to the ability to compute approximate solutions to a famous group of mathematical problems.Â The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recognizes contributions by scientists and system developers to innovation that exemplifies the greatest recent achievements in computing.

By Staff Â· Posted March 28, 2012; 11:52 a.m.

Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor of Humanities and professor of writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has won the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prize for 2012 that honors a lifetime of literary achievement. The prize is given annually by the Blue Metropolis Foundation and has an award of $10,000. Oates will receive the award in Montreal on April 21, 2012.

By Staff Â· Posted March 26, 2012; 09:00 a.m.

Robert George, Princeton University's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and a professor of politics, has been appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The commission is an independent, bipartisan group that monitors freedom of religion abroad and provides policy recommendations; members are appointed by the president and leaders of both political parties in the Senate and House of Representatives. George was appointed Friday, March 23, by House Speaker John Boehner to serve a two-year term.

By Ushma Patel Â· Posted March 2, 2012; 11:30 a.m.

Christina Paxson, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been selected to serve as the next president of Brown University. The Corporation of Brown University voted on her appointment in a special session March 2.

By Staff Â· Posted February 29, 2012; 01:08 p.m.

David Botstein, Princeton's Anthony B. Evnin '62 Professor of Genomics, professor of moleculary biology and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, was one of six researchers recently namedÂ 2012 Dan David Prize Laureates. The $1 million prize recognizes Botstein's important contributions to the understanding and mapping of the human genome. The prize is endowed by the Dan David Foundation and based at Tel Aviv University. It is presented yearly in honor of innovative and interdisciplinary research.

By Staff Â· Posted February 22, 2012; 04:27 p.m.

Angus Deaton, Princeton's Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and professor of economics and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been selected to receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Economics, Finance and Management.

By Staff Â· Posted February 2, 2012; 11:27 a.m.

President Barack Obama has announced his intention to appoint Eldar Shafir, Princeton University's William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, to the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability.

By Staff Â· Posted January 17, 2012; 05:03 p.m.

Harold Shapiro, Princeton University's president emeritus and a professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal for his efforts to promote public understanding of controversial and complex scientific issues. The medal, to be presented at a ceremony April 30 in Washington, D.C., is awarded annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good and is considered the academy's most prestigious award.

By Emily Aronson Â· Posted January 5, 2012; 10:00 a.m.

Chad Klaus, a member of Princeton University's Facilities Organization staff for 11 years, has been named vice president for University Services. The newly created position is part of a realignment of the responsibilities within Facilities and University Services to strengthen the University's capacity to manage its facilities and provide critical services to members of the campus community. Klaus' appointment is effective Jan. 5.

By Staff Â· Posted December 21, 2011; 04:00 p.m.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has selected six Princeton professors as fellows for 2011: Bryan Grenfell from ecology and evolutionary biology; John Storey and Ned Wingreen in molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics; and Pablo Debenedetti, William Russel and Alexander Smits from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

By Staff Â· Posted December 5, 2011; 11:30 a.m.

Steven Mackey, a Princeton professor of music, has received Grammy Award nominations for both composition and guitar performance in an ensemble. Mackey is nominated for Best Small Ensemble Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition awards for the 2011 recording "Lonely Motel: Music from 'Slide,'" a cycle of 11 Mackey compositions recorded in collaboration with singer Rinde Eckert and new–music sextet Eighth Blackbird. The Grammy Awards are presented by the Recording Academy and will be announced Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, in Los Angeles, and aired live on CBS beginning at 8 p.m.

By Staff Â· Posted November 21, 2011; 12:15 p.m.

Paul Needham, librarian of the Scheide Library, Princeton, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society at its meeting in London on Nov. 15. Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history. From time to time, the society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the society's aims. Needham's award is the 40th made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929. Of these 40, Needham is the sixth American to receive the medal.

By Staff Â· Posted November 10, 2011; 04:09 p.m.

Daniel Kahneman — the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, emeritus; a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs; and a senior scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs — has been awarded the Talcott Parsons Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his pioneering research in behavioral economics. The award, presented at a ceremony Nov. 9 in Cambridge, Mass., honors outstanding contributions to the social sciences.

By Staff Â· Posted October 21, 2011; 12:18 a.m.

President Barack Obama will nominate Princeton University molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler to serve as a member of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, the major source of federal funding for scientific research.

By Ushma Patel Â· Posted October 10, 2011; 08:15 p.m.

A 40-year path of friendly arguments and groundbreaking studies of how governments weigh policies to deal with economic troubles has led a pair of prominent economists to share the 2011 Nobel Prize in their field. Princeton University professor Christopher Sims was honored along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and visiting professor this semester at Princeton, for developing tools to analyze the economic causes and effects of monetary policy. Their work has revolutionized the field of macroeconomics and how it is applied by central banks and governments around the world.

By Staff Â· Posted October 10, 2011; 01:10 p.m.

Princeton University professor Christopher Sims has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist who is a visiting professor at Princeton, for developing tools to analyze the effect of monetary policy on the economy.

By Staff Â· Posted September 27, 2011; 12:18 p.m.

Chang-rae Lee, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been selected to receive the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction for his novel "The Surrendered." Lee will receive the award, which celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, nonviolent conflict resolution and global understanding, and is accompanied by a $10,000 prize, at a ceremony on Nov. 13.

By Morgan Kelly Â· Posted September 26, 2011; 07:00 p.m.

Two Princeton University professors have received the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.

By Staff Â· Posted September 19, 2011; 01:28 p.m.

Larry Bartels, Princeton's Donald E. Stokes Professor in Public and International Affairs, will transfer to emeritus status effective Jan. 1, 2012. The move was approved in recent action by the Board of Trustees.

By Staff Â· Posted September 7, 2011; 01:33 p.m.

Peter Brown, Princeton University's Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus, has been selected to receive the Balzan Prize for his research on ancient history, specifically the Greco-Roman world.

By Steven Schultz Â· Posted September 2, 2011; 10:20 a.m.

Stuart Schwartz, a pioneer of mathematical methods that led to techniques for efficiently transmitting information, and an instrumental force in building the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, died Saturday, Aug. 27. He was 72.

By Staff Â· Posted June 14, 2011; 01:00 p.m.

The New York Academy of Sciences has named Olga Troyanskaya, an associate professor of computer science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, and Gerard Wysocki, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton, as finalists in the 2011 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. The annual Blavatnik Awards recognize innovative and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics and engineering.
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By Staff Â· Posted June 10, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

President Barack Obama has appointed Marta Tienda, Princeton's Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies and a professor of sociology and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Tienda was sworn in on May 26. The commission is tasked with advising Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on how to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for Hispanics.

By Staff Â· Posted May 18, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

Four Princeton faculty members have been elected to the American Philosophical Society. They were among 37 humanists, scientists, social scientists and leaders in civic and cultural affairs selected this year for their extraordinary intellectual accomplishments and leadership. Among those elected this April are the following Princeton faculty members: Natalie Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus; Carol Greenhouse, chair of the Department of Anthropology and a professor of anthropology; Paul Krugman, a professor of economics and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Wilson School.

By Staff Â· Posted May 3, 2011; 03:00 p.m.

Four Princeton faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. They are David Gabai, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics; Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Loren Pfeiffer, senior research scholar in electrical engineering; and H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering. The inductees are among 72 new members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. They will be inducted into the academy next April.

By Staff Â· Posted April 20, 2011; 02:00 p.m.

Benjamin Elman, the Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of East Asian studies and history at Princeton, has been selected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as one of three winners of its Distinguished Achievement Awards. The awards, amounting to as much as $1.5 million each, are intended to honor scholars who have made significant contributions to humanistic inquiry.Â

By Staff Â· Posted April 12, 2011; 11:06 a.m.

Two Princeton faculty members have received 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships:Â Michael Gordin, professor of history and the director of theÂ Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, for the project "Scientific Babel: Communication and Identity in Western Chemistry Since the Fall of Latin;" andÂ Simon Morrison, professor of music, for the project "The Secret Archive of Prokofiev."

By Staff Â· Posted April 7, 2011; 11:55 a.m.

James Richardson, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts and a professor of English, has won this year's Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 award, sponsored by the literary organization Poets & Writers, is given annually to honor an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition

By Cass Cliatt Â· Posted April 1, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has named Philip Holmes, Princeton's Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, to its 2011 class of fellows for his "extensive contributions to nonlinear dynamics."

By Staff Â· Posted March 11, 2011; 04:50 p.m.

Toshiko Takaezu, a renowned ceramist who helped shape Princeton University's Program in Visual Arts over her 25 years on the faculty and who created the bronze Remembrance Bell in the University's Memorial Garden, died March 9 of natural causes in a convalescent center in Honolulu. She was 88.

By Staff Â· Posted February 9, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

Alexander Smits and Richard Miles, professors of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Christodoulos Floudas, professor of chemical and biological engineering, have been elected as 2011 members of the National Academy of Engineering.

By Staff Â· Posted January 25, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

The National Academy of Sciences has honored Bonnie Bassler, Princeton's Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, and Paul Reider, lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, with awards for extraordinary scientific achievements.

By Ian Cahir Â· Posted January 12, 2011; 06:16 p.m.

Robert Judson Clark, a Princeton professor emeritus of art and archaeology who was considered the father of the Arts and Crafts revival, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, at home in Lafayette, Calif., after a lengthy illness. He was 73.

By Staff Â· Posted January 11, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named David MacMillan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry; N. Phuan Ong, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics; and Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, as fellows for 2011.

By Staff Â· Posted January 7, 2011; 05:00 p.m.

Ingrid Daubechies, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, has received the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research. The award, which cited her pioneering data compression techniques, is presented annually by the American Mathematical Society. It is given for work that has proved to be of fundamental or lasting importance in its field.Â The prize was awarded to Daubechies Friday, Jan. 7, at the society's Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.

By Staff Â· Posted January 6, 2011; 09:00 a.m.

David MacMillan, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, has been named the winner of the 2011 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Award. The award was established in 2004 with the aim of recognizing researchers who have made outstanding achievements in catalysis science.

By Staff Â· Posted January 3, 2011; 12:16 p.m.

John Groves, Princeton's Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2010 Remsen Award, given by the Maryland section of the American Chemical Society. He was cited for his wide-ranging contributions to bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, enzymology andÂ understanding of molecular mechanisms. The award is named in honor of Ira Remsen, the second president of Johns Hopkins University. Groves received the award in June at the section's annual meeting in Baltimore.Â

By Hilary Parker Â· Posted December 17, 2010; 03:00 p.m.

A project that could enable the development of revolutionary electronics and a separate project that could dramatically improve diabetes monitoring and treatment are the first two research efforts to be supported at Princeton University from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund. Google CEO and Princeton alumnus Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, created the $25 million endowment fund at Princeton in 2009.

By Staff Â· Posted December 10, 2010; 09:00 a.m.

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, a Princeton professor of economics, has been selected to receive the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics with his longtime collaborator John Moore of the University of Edinburgh and London School of Economics. Kiyotaki and Moore received the prize, announced Dec. 10 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics and accompanied by $100,000, for their influential 1997 paper on credit conditions and asset pricing

By Staff Â· Posted November 22, 2010; 09:43 a.m.

Adele Goldberg, a professor of linguistics in the Council of the Humanities, andÂ Thomas Levin, an associate professor of German, have been named Einstein Visiting Fellows at the Freie UniversitÃ¤t Berlin. The two-year fellowships, which seek to promote the integration of top scholars from abroad in Berlin’s research and scientific fields, are accompanied by 150,000 Euros (about $200,000) a year.

By Staff Â· Posted November 9, 2010; 03:52 p.m.

Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton's William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, has been named a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering. Daubechies was recognized for her "fundamental discoveries in the field of compact representations of data, leading to efficient image compression as used in digital photography," according to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which bestows the award. She will be honored along with other medal recipients at the institute's awards ceremony in April.